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--- rob@dekko.com wrote: > Dan, > > Summary: > It checks to see if the order is valid. Maybe. Are you sure? Remember, you don't know the programmer who wrote it. > For more information I search my Notes documentation database for > ValidOrder. In our example, there is no such thing. This is the reality for 99.9% of the AS/400 shops out there. Count yourself fortunate. > Detail: > How a valid order is determined is subject to change. However, this way I > don't have to remember to change every program - just update the service > program. We haven't even determined that the procedure validates an order number yet. Even if we go on the assumption that it does, it hasn't been documented anywhere and, even if it is in a service program, it hasn't been put through the QA grind because, frankly, it's a rare shop indeed that does thorough QA. Yes, the "change in one place, automatically affects everything that uses it" is the way to go. But only if there is strong QA and documentation. It sounds like you have both. > Can you define what READ does, or do you need to look at that machine > code? Is READ documented? Can anyone in my shop change what READ does? Rob, it sounds like you are in a programmer's Nirvana. I have just started to work in a shop does the QA thing, all of it, and is open to consider using service programs, and I am pursuing this in my free time. Nothing gets coded here without detailed specs!!! Our dev box was just upgraded to v5r2, and our prod box will be next month. Wow. - Dan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com
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